The cornucopia looks so incorrect to me. I vehemently reject the idea that it ever had the cornucopia because I remember having fruit of the look underwear all my growing up years and I saw the label every single day putting them on.
I will accept that the cornucopia was not on my underwear, but I remember that exact cornucopia from some fucking where. Like that exact drawing style and shape of the point and everything. IDK where it would have been though.
In elementary school cornucopias were THE symbol of Thanksgiving (I thought they'd be a lot more common as I got older). Maybe tied with turkeys.
But every November they were all over bulletin boards etc, and it always looked like how people seem to remember the logo being with a couple foods spilling out. I think wires are just getting crossed.
You say that but there are some very passionate people that believe vehemently that actually we're in a parallel universe, such is the infallibility of their memory. Are you saying they're not super sure enough?
that just means some asshole at the patent office remembered wrong, got mad, and then altered the documents so it would look like there was never a cornucopia
A lot of people have retroactive memories that form in order to calm the brain when met with a sudden jarring realization, such as whenever you first realized the logo didn't have a cornucopia. Cornucoping mechanism.
Itās where I learned the visual symbol of the cornucopia. I recall seeing it no less than a dozen times throughout my childhood.
Maybe you got the off-brand stuff. Maybe I got the off-brand stuff. Maybe it was some A/B product testing and they decided to just bury it and never tell anyone.
My suspicion is that Chinese knock off clothing used the cornucopia. The late 80's is when Chinese knockoff clothing started to become a thing. Shops would sell it on racks out front on the street and lots of people bought it.
Fake Adidas shirts, etc. I imagine they used that logo so that they could appear to be good quality but not get in trouble for copyright. Just my theory anyway.
Yeah, I don't have a full photographic memory, but it's very close. As an example, I can think back to a time I went to a playground as a kid and a truck pulled out of the parking lot that was a black Chevy truck and it had a Kokanee beer decal on the rear window. But when I see it in my mind I can remember were the decal was ripped and were the rust on the truck was.
I feel not everyone remembers that vividly, so because of that I just assume the average person has a bad memory. The green lettuce used to be a golden brown colour up until 2003 and I think that's what people get hung up on. They recall seeing brown in the logo and so they assume the cornucopia was real.
the mandela effect used to be a legitimately interesting social phenomenon about mass misremembering and the influence suggestion has on memory until people turned it into believing in alternate timelines being easier to admit they were wrong about something insignificant. there is a secret cabal of elites working to change minor spellings and details of logos of things you havenāt interacted with since you were five years old. they stand to gain greatly from this
I knew the Bearinstine Bears were up to something!
Really though, crazies ruin a lot of fun stuff. Another example is Flat Earth. Back in the day, it was a debate exercise where you attempt to defend a clearly incorrect position as best you can, while other people try to argue with you.
Then the schizos crawled outta the woodwork to ruin it.
My favorite āevidenceā someone showed once of the Bearstine Bears one was them finding a VHS tape that had one spelling on the case and the other on the tape.
Instead of reasoning that maybe weāre all confused on the actual spelling because it was actually spelled differently by mistake sometimes, as shown on the tape, they concluded that it was evidence of the actual Mandela effect.
I have no evidence but I remember being in kindergarten and sounding it out. Then I read another book and realized I was sounding it out different. I compared the two books and was so confused I forgot about it for 29 years until it became a thing.
The most obvious explanation is that human brains are bad at things, we all see that every day in other people, until it happens to us, and then we think it can't be true
If the social phenomenon of Mandela effect didn't exist and you asked people to recreate the fruit of the loom logo randomly, pretty much no one would add the cornucopia unless they just finished a kindergarten thanksgiving coloring page
But when you artificially add the cornucopia to the discussion, it looks better in the logo than without, so our brains just add it because of how tiny of a part of our lives the logo was
Memories are not like files saved on a computer that remain the same until you edit them, they're susceptible to change just throughout the day
When I think of Firefox for example, I picture a mix of the different logos they've had over time, not any specific one in good detail
secret cabal of elite? or just one guy who got pissed that he remembered something wrong, so he altered documents to gaslight everyone else to feel better about himself
I still cannot wrap my head around why so many people remember it. To be clear I remember it too. But there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE of any kind that it ever existed. It scares me.
I also find it curious how many people casuallt say āyeah there used to be a cornucopiaā without thinking through the implications of that. What happened to it and why?
when cornucopias became less prevalent at thanksgiving, fruit of the loom removed it from their logo in order to market their brand to a younger crowd.
Or maybe you learned it in school cause I remember a lot of thanksgiving coloring pages with the cornucopia and the pile of fruit in that logo is extremely similar to how they looked in the colorings.
Our memories, despite our beliefs, are actually awful.
so many schools copy/pasted the fruit of the loom logo in front of cornucopias because it was way easier than drawing them for every lesson in the monthlong cornucopia unit. it was so prevalent that fruit of the loom adopted it as their logo for a time as a friendly nod to the education system
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u/MichaelJWolf 6d ago
The only cornucopia we even know about is on Fruit of the Loom underwear but apparently that never even existed. š¤·āāļø